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An agreement has been made this week that could see thousands of transport workers in Kazakhstan join the ITF family.

The International Transport Workers Federation, backed by 4.8 million workers, has called on the Iranian government to drop the charges against Ebrahim Madadi and Davood Razavi, from the Vahed Syndicate - the ITF’s bus workers union in Tehran.

Trade unions representing workers in Lufthansa Technik (LHT) have established a new global network to build workers' power in the multinational.

Experienced maintenance technicians have expressed serious safety concerns around one of the official airlines and sponsors of the Olympics in a survey backed by the ITF.

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton has protested to Turkey’s prime minister, aviation and transport ministers, and aviation authority, over the suspension of two airport workers. He acted after ITF union BTS (United Trade Union of Transport Employees) alerted the Federation that the two appeared to be victims of an opportunistic attack by airport officials using the country’s failed coup in as an excuse.

A survey answered by 189 maintenance technicians working for LATAM Airlines in Peru, Brazil, Paraguay and Colombia has identified for the first time the potenial impact on flight safety of changes in maintenance procedures, reductions in personnel, and the replacement of expert workers by less qualified staff.

As unions gear up for the largest action since a national state of emergency was declared, the ITF has asked Turkey’s nationwide retail chain TEDİ Discount Tekstil Mağazacılık A.Ş. to reinstate 16 dismissed warehouse workers and negotiate with their union over working conditions and salaries.

Organising new members has emerged as a key focus for unions in Tunisia during two ITF workshops held in the country this week.